Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

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I want him to to the Olympic double (ITT + RR).

Imagine a schedule where he goes for San Remo (Cipressa attack), Ronde (100 km attack), Liege (Redoute hat trick), then Olympic double and finish off the season with WC double and Lombardia.
Don’t bother about GTs next year Remco!
So love these priorities.

He needs to make history in his own way. And he is already well on his way!!

PS. Only problem with a Cipressa attack is that there will still be too many full teams willing to chase him down. And if he still manages to crest the Poggio in front he better have 30 seconds or more cuz that descent…quite frankly, I would rather he target something else. The last thing we need is another Remco crash. Cycling is utterly boring without him racing. :D :cool: :p
 
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Zonneveld: 'What I hear is that Lefevere mainly talks to American investors'​

'Perhaps this is also the time for Lefevere to cash in a bit', the journalist analyses. 'With the contracts they have now, and someone like Evenepoel; that does represent value. What I hear is that he mainly talks to American investors. However, no riders are being contracted now, everything is on hold . While, with the Tour, these are the moments when many contracts are signed. If you're not doing that now, then it's serious that he's going to sell. It's not just a thing.'
 
What are the odds he's doing this because Evenepoel is gonna force his way out of his garbage contract
Maybe some sort of chicken or egg story. If he fears Evenepoel is going to leave, better to cash out now and/or get in new money to tie Evenepoel to the team. On the other hand, not being able to find new money and form a top notch GT team for Evenepoel, would be why he is looking elsewhere to begin with.
 
Man I hope he does leave. Take his talent to Chemical Beach, Ineos.
I'm done with this nanny approach from Lefevre, give this man the same schedule as Pogacar, proper one day races and the Tour. I want to see him in Flanders, Amstel, Lombardia, heck even MSR. There's no point holding him back, he can win these.
If he goes to Ineos I fear he will do GC attempts the Ineos way. Meaning some stage races and a lot of altitude training, then Dauphine and the Tour. I don’t see that as very exciting.
 
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If he goes to Ineos I fear he will do GC attempts the Ineos way. Meaning some stage races and a lot of altitude training, then Dauphine and the Tour. I don’t see that as very exciting.
He’s got enough leverage and willpower to get what he wants from any team. “What would he program look like” is going to be part of any discussion. Plus, INEOS isn’t that dumb, they’d love to have a world champ and LBL (and other classic) wins on their team.
 
Merlier will still start and bring Vanlerberghe, Vansevenant will start but is very much up and down, Van Wilder will not start as he gets to lead in Poland. The strength of the team remains an issue, but this squad will be even worse than in the Giro.
What do you mean even worse than in the Giro? Besides Alaphilippe there wasn't any other rider that could've joined the train for the mountains and improved it?

Very happy to hear he's riding the Vuelta though. #2 GT let's go
 
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